For context I am fairly new to programming so keep that in mind. For one of my first decent sized projects I am trying to develop a small windows app that will have an interface that will allow me to ...

Well, first of all I don't really know how the hardware of a smartphone is, and I've just programmed for Android. But it feels safe to think that a smartphone is just an old PC with some particular ...

I work on commercial (windows) desktop application that is subjected to frequent changes, and is installed on multiple locations. Application should only be available to existing users. Until now each ...

We have a pretty sizable .NET rich client app that currently uses nHibernate and Firebird embedded for persistence. Due to the nature of the app, we need to load the entire database into memory when ...

I am thinking about a library that I could use for a program to create presentations but I am not sure what one could/should use for a task like that.
What first came to my mind are 2D Gaming Engines ...

I'm writing a Java desktop application that will be available to the public. It will contact backend APIs via HTTPS using Jersey client.
I don't know anything about using certificates in desktop apps ...

I've got several applications and websites that will be built around one main application. In a perfect situation users will be able to register once and be able to log into the different applications ...

Several years ago I wrote a desktop application, a small accounting system, in Delphi 7, that is in user in a medium-sized company.
The code belongs to me. I ported another Accounting system that I ...

What should be taken into account when choosing between desktop and web as a platform for a new application?
There are definitely a lot of arguments for both platforms but what are the most important ...

I am developping a desktop application in C#, and have separated different layers in an MVC-ish architecture.
As I have switched from GTK# to XWT, only views had to be adjusted, so the seperation of ...

I was given a task to prototype a Desktop Application with the ff. requirements:
Must use javascript, nodewebkit, node.js
Must be multi platform specially Windows and OSX
Can take a screenshot of a ...

I have a desktop application where the user has tabular views on some data records. Now we got the requirement to let the user select multiple of these records at the same time and let the him edit ...

Is it possible to use the framework behind the Windows 8 Metro UI to make Exposé-like application for Windows? I tried Mac and I really like this feature, on another side i like that I can drag the ...

I am starting with this project of mine of writing a custom UI for linux. What would happen is:
The computer would boot into this UI which would not be the typical taskbar/icons/startbutton kind of ...

I have a desktop application that has the ability to automatically update itself on the next restart (without the user's consent - but this is another issue altogether). Assuming that the user would ...

I create web applications most in RoR and PHP. About a year ago a company wanted to use my app but in a stand alone browser window in Linux, so I wrote one in python using webkit, locked it down to ...

We have an MVC4 application that we would also need to distribute as a standalone (no network connectivity) desktop application. Rather than rebuild the HTML/JS front-end we would like to reuse that ...

I'm writing a WinForms desktop application which will be shipped out to several different clients and am wondering what the best way to implement a user configuration file is. Normally I would use the ...

Our company's main application is a desktop program that is used at warehouses and written in C# and Windows Presentation Forms.
The next thing we want to be able to do is track when customers open ...

I have a client who wants a tool for him to be able to upload his products, enter orders, and keep track of customer details. There are quite a few highly customised requests, which is why he wants ...

I know the Ruby on Rails framework is only for web development and not suitable for desktop application development. But if a ruby programmer wants to develop a desktop application, is it suitable and ...

I have created a .net windows form application that I want to restrict from being duplicated. I want this application to be portable, so I would like to allow it to be moved. How would I be able to do ...

I've got this idea for some time and I was wondering if anyone has seen such a feature/app in any operating system and if you haven't, what do you think about it. Where do you think I should begin?
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I have to develop an application for a gas agency where a database will store consumer numbers, names, addresses, and date delivered for a town with nearly 20,000 people. I only know PHP, MySQL, CSS, ...

Reading this site and SO I've seen many stories of interview questions and answers saying a candidate had to implement a linked list from scratch. Usually this is a "gimme" exercise for programming ...

I've got a mental block as far as desigining the main screen interface for a desktop application that I'm currently upgrading. When I first developed this program the screen resolution was 640 X 480. ...

I am finalizing development of a desktop Java application that communicates with an outside web server, and now I need to start seriously considering deployment.
This application will run on a large ...

During my years of web development with JavaScript, I come to the conclusion that it's an incredible powerful language, and you can do amazing things with it.
It offers a rich set of features, like:
...

Let's assume the following two assumptions are true.
Your entire userbase has broadband access everywhere
There is an imaginary browser X that implements the entire draft specification of the HTML5 ...